Honoré de Balzac (Author of Père Goriot) Literature & Fiction Influences edit data Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous authors, including Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815.

Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James and Jack Kerouac, as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels. Many of Balzac's works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers. An enthusiastic reader and independent thinker as a child, Balzac had trouble adapting himself to the teaching style of his grammar school. His willful nature caused trouble throughout his life, and frustrated his ambitions to succeed in the world of business. When he finished school, Balzac was apprenticed as a legal clerk, but he turned his back on law after wearying of its inhumanity and banal routine.

Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience. Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule. His relationship with his family was often strained by financial and personal drama, and he lost more than one friend over critical reviews. In 1850, he married Ewelina Hańska, his longtime paramour; he died five months later. Balzac's Life and Literary Legacy - CSMonitor.com Balzac's Life and Literary Legacy The latest biography of the novelist disentangles myth and reality By Merle Rubin. Merle Rubin regularly reviews books for the Monitor.

September 29, 1994 Save for later Saved Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of a century distinguished for great novelists, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a vast, encyclopedic fictional edifice purporting to portray all aspects of French society: nearly 100 interlinked novels and stories grouped under the collective heading ``La Comedie Humaine.'' Nowadays, few English-speaking readers are likely to be familiar with more than a handful of the most famous titles: ``La Peau de Chagrin'' (1831), ``Eugenie Grandet'' (1833), ``Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu'' (1837), ``Illusions Perdues'' (1843), ``La Cousine Bette'' (1846). Nor is it easy to obtain the less well-known works in translation. But one positive side effect of Graham Robb's ``Balzac: A Biography,'' the first full-scale biography in English of the French master in more than half a century, could be the reissue of many more of his works.

It was with good reason that Andre Maurois, whose biography of Balzac was translated into English in 1965, entitled his book ``Prometheus'' in tribute to his subject's heroic will-power and vibrant creativity. A chubby, amiable, but relentlessly driven man, Balzac had more than a touch of Napoleonic megalomania - and an uncanny ability to contain and create multitudes. Robb draws attention to a passage from an unpublished text in which Balzac describes this sense of multiplicity allied to egomania: Recommended: Could you pass a US citizenship test? ``Yesterday, when I returned home, I saw a countless number of copies of my own person, all jammed up against one another like herrings in a barrel.

They sent my face reverberating off towards some magical horizon, just as the light of a lamp placed in the middle of a drawing-room is repeated to infinity between two facing mirrors.'' Photos of the Day Photos of the day 02/08 Balzac's genius won the admiration of writers as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Henry James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Oscar Wilde, who proclaimed the death of Balzac's character Lucien de Rubempre ``a grief from which I have never been able completely to rid myself.'' Beginning in the 19th century with such figures as Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, and continuing with George Saintsbury, Lytton Strachey, and D.H. Lawrence, there has also been a considerable body of opinion that judges Balzac to fall just short of the highest artistic rank. Coarseness of sensibility, immaturity, unwholesomeness, and sentimentality are among the charges leveled against him, along with a tendency to oversimplify. Even Balzac's admirers might concede that his immense appetite for life and information was coupled with a certain lack of intellectual, moral, and aesthetic rigor.

But, as Robb reminds us, Balzac practically invented the ``modern'' novel, embracing a literary form that was disdained in his native France - not only for its supposed appeal to the ``vulgar'' reader, but also for its apparent lack of form - and turning it into a medium capable of illuminating every aspect of modern life. Balzac's own life, in some ways, was almost too full of goings-on. From an early age, he was determined to leave his mark. ``If I'm not a genius, I'm done for,'' he wrote his sister Laure as he scribbled verse upon verse of distinctly bad poetry in hope of rhyming his way to the top. The young man worked as a legal clerk, familiarizing himself with the various lawsuits and bankruptcies that would form a large part of his fiction. Over the years, he ventured into an amazing array of commercial enterprises, including railway investments, a plan to open a grocery store, a stint of silver-mining in Sardinia, and a scheme to sell life insurance to his readers. He ran up huge bills for clothing and home furnishings, moving from one residence to another to avoid paying creditors.

Besides wanting to look the part of a successful author, Balzac seemingly needed to keep himself in debt in order to keep producing the novels and stories that provided his income, Robb suggests. This was a far cry from a later literary generation's motto of ``l'art pour l'art.'' Balzac had actually written more than a dozen novels when he first got the idea that these - and others to come - could be formed into a grand overarching whole to be know as ``La Comedie Humaine,'' (an allusion to Dante's ``Divina Commedia''). Characters who appeared in one novel began recurring in others, giving the impression of an immense, self-contained world. Balzac's great experiment clearly served as the model for such enterprises as Proust's ``A la Recherche du Temps Perdu,'' Zola's ``Les Rougon-Macquart,'' and Anthony Powell's ``A Dance to the Music of Time.'' Robb, a British scholar specializing in French literature, proves a knowledgeable and judicious guide to Balzac's life and work.

Whether he is sorting out the complications of his hero's finances or untangling the even greater complexities of Balzac's love life, Robb demonstrates an impressive ability to distinguish fact from rumor, myth from reality. Balzac's search for the ``ideal woman'' began when, at 23, he fell in love with the 45-year-old mother of some children he was tutoring. It ended with his marriage, only months before his death, to a Polish countess closer to his own age, whom he first ``met'' through a fan letter she wrote him many years before. In one sense, perhaps, Robb might be said to know his material too well: Although he aims to introduce Balzac to relatively uninitiated readers, he tends to get ahead of himself in narrating his hero's story, referring to events that have not yet happened as though the reader were already acquainted with them. A more leisurely, expansive approach might not only have better suited the needs of readers unfamiliar with Balzac's life, but might also have given this intelligent and sound biography a little more of the storytelling appeal of an authentic Balzacian novel.

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General Fiction Mar-2010 Honore de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's "The Dandy" (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and marking an important s... General Fiction Jan-2010 This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo... Literary Oct-2009 "Ah madame," replied the doctor, "I have some appalling stories in my collection. But each one has its proper hour in a conversation-you know the pretty jest recorded by Chamfort, and said to the Duc de Fronsac: 'Between your sally and the present m... General Fiction Sep-2009 The fjords of Norway create an enchanting setting for this story. Seraphita is an angel, both half-man and half-woman.

The metaphysical plot involves two mortals who are in love with Seraphita, but the angel is in the last days of life and beyond ear... Literary Aug-2009 Like Green Integer's previously published "The Vicar's Passion," this great romantic novel by Honore de Balzac--previously unpublished in English--was written under the pseudonym Horace de Saint-Aubin. "Wann-Chlore "presents the hero Horace Landon am... General Fiction Jun-2009 Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled "La Comedie Humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napol... General Fiction Jul-2007 Balzac's classic philosophical novel about a young man (Raphael) torn between two women, one whom he loves but who does not reciprocate his affections (Foedora, the "woman without a heart") and one who loves him but for whom initially he has only fra...

Science Fiction Jul-2006 Written for serial publication in 1822 under the pseudonym Horace de Saint-Aubin, this Faustian tale by Balzac has never before been available in English. More than a long-lost curiosity by an important writer, The Centenarian is also a seminal work ... General Fiction May-2006 By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories,... General Fiction May-2006 By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories,... Literary Jan-2006 The Comedy of Human Life (La Comedie Humaine) is the collective title given to a series of linked stories by Balzac, such as provincial, Parisian, political, military and country.

It includes some of the best stories from the series, concerning Chris... Suspense Jul-2005 This early Balzac novel, which has never before been translated into English, was written under the pseudonym of Horace de Saint-Aubain. Balzac wrote several of his early works under pen names, but this work with its controversial subjects of incest ... General Fiction Jul-2004 Ostensibly a tale of sexual androgyny, the power of love, and its bitter aftermath, this volume is in fact a study of the force of art on society and the deadly immortality of beauty. The nameless narrator attends a ball held by a wealthy Parisian fa... General Fiction Jan-2004 The Wrong Side of Paris, the final novel in Balzac s The Human Comedy, is the compelling story of Godefroid, an abject failure at thirty, who seeks refuge from materialism by moving into a monastery-like lodging house in the shadows of Notre-Dame. ...

General Fiction Jul-2002 "The Comedy of Human Life (La Comedie Humaine)" is the collective title given to a series of linked stories by Balzac, totalling about 100 in all, and loosely divided into groups, such as provincial, Parisian, political, military, and country. Concei... General Fiction Jan-1999 Fiction. Short Story. Translated from the French by Anthony Rudolph. GILLETTE OR THE UNKNOWN MASTERIECE is one of Balzac's most brilliant and fascinating works, and one of the great short stories in European literature. It has been widely influential... General Fiction Dec-1997 Balzac's radiant story recounts the history of Colonel Chabert, a disenfranchised hero of the Napoleonic wars. Left for dead on the battlefield of Eylau, Chabert has spent years as an amnesiac in an asylum. The novel begins with his return to the lif... General Fiction Oct-1978 This novel covers the years 1803-6, when Napoleon was making himself first consul and then emperor.

It is also an early example of the detective story, in which the sinister, implacable police agent, Corentin, stalks his way towards vengeance on his ... General Fiction Oct-1977 The first new English translation for more than 35 years of Balzac's extraordinary The Wild Ass's Skin, it is also the first edition in English to include Balzac's original Preface of 1831. This novel has been freshly translated by Helen Constantine,... General Fiction Jun-1977 Considered a founder of the realistic school of fiction, prolific French novelist Honore de Balzac (1799 1850) wrote in meticulous detail, depicting ordinary and undistinguished lives in tales that nevertheless abounded in melodramatic plots and viol... About The Monk Amador, And Bertha The Penitent General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ...

Adieu Historical "Come, deputy of the Centre, forward Quick step march if we want to be in time to dine with the others. Jump, marquis there, that's right why, you can skip across a stubble-field like a deer " These words were said by a huntsman peacefully seate... After-Dinner Stories From Balzac General Fiction This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo... Albert Savarus General Fiction Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 181... The Ball at Sceaux General Fiction This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

Brotherhood of Consolation General Fiction In this work Balzac elucidates the nature and attitudes of the French. Delving deep into his characters, he comes up with a tightly knitted plot and implicitly communicates his perceptions. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered represe... The Brothers-In-Arms And Other Stories General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ... Domestic Peace General Fiction The incident recorded in this sketch took place towards the end of the month of November, 1809, the moment when Napoleon's fugitive empire attained the apogee of its splendor. The trumpet-blasts of Wagram were still sounding an echo in the heart of t... Domestic Peace, and Paz General Fiction Scenes From Private Life from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine). By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction.

His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human... A Drama on the Seashore Literary Nearly all young men have a compass with which they delight in measuring the future. When their will is equal to the breadth of the angle at which they open it the world is theirs. But this phenomenon of the inner life takes place only at a certain a... The Elixir Of Life General Fiction THE ELIXIR OF LIFE by Honore de Balzac TO THE READER At the very outset of the writer's literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject of this Study. Later on he found the same story in a collection published about the beginning of ... The End Of Evil Ways General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ...

An Episode Under the Terror Literary On the 22nd of January, 1793, towards eight o'clock in the evening, an old lady came down the steep street that comes to an end opposite the Church of Saint Laurent in the Faubourg Saint Martin. It had snowed so heavily all day long that the lady's f... Esther Happy General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ... In Which It Is Demonstrated That Fortune Is Always Feminine, And Perseverance In Love General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ... Innocence And Other Stories General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright.

His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ... The Jealousies of a Country Town General Fiction Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 181... Louis Lambert General Fiction Honora de Balzac is the narrator of this novel about Louis Lambert, a child prodigy. Balzac and Lambert are portrayed as students in Paris. They are both social outcasts who develop a love of philosophy. After a psychic dream, Lambert writes a metaph... Louis Lambert; Les Proscrits; Sraphita General Fiction This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor ...

Love in a Mask; Or, Imprudence and Happiness General Fiction This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor ... Madame Firmiani Literary This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.... The Magic Skin General Fiction The Magic SkinBy Honore De BalzacTranslated by Ellen MarriageHonorE de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled La ComEdie Humaine, wh... Maitre Cornelius And Other Short Novels General Fiction This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

Man of Business General Fiction This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.... The Napoleon Of The People Literary Napoleon, you see, my friends, was born in Corsica, which is a French island warmed by the Italian sun; it is like a furnace there, everything is scorched up, and they keep on killing each other from father to son for generations all about nothing at... Odd Sayings Of Three Pilgrims And Other Stories General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ... An Old Maid General Fiction Most persons have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we have here to do) flourished in Alencon, and doubtless the South possesses others. The nu...

Parisians In The Country General Fiction Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 181... The Peasantry General Fiction This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo... The Peasants General Fiction This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo... Petty Troubles Of Married Life Action Adventure Excerpt: ...the sublime young woman no more. You are saved from the tortures to which a criminal passion was leading you. You fall back again into the purgatory of your married bliss; but you begin to be attentive to Madame de Fischtaminel, with whom...

Pierre Grassou Literary Whenever you have gone to take a serious look at the exhibition of works of sculpture and painting, such as it has been since the revolution of 1830, have you not been seized by a sense of uneasiness, weariness, sadness, at the sight of those long an... The Red Inn General Fiction Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 181... Scenes from a Courtesan's Life General Fiction In 1824, at the last opera ball of the season, several masks were struck by the beauty of a youth who was wandering about the passages and greenroom with the air of a man in search of a woman kept at home by unexpected circumstances. The secret of th... Second Home General Fiction This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

Short Stories Of Honore De Balzac General Fiction 1887. Balzac is considered to be the greatest name in the post-Revolutionary literature of France. His writings display a profound knowledge of the human heart, with an extraordinary range of knowledge. Contents: Don Juan; Christ in Flanders; In the ... Shorter Stories of Honore de Balzac General Fiction 1932. Balzac was originally trained as a lawyer before deciding his dream was to become a writer. He is now regarded as one of the creators of realism in literature and his huge production of novels and short stories are collected under the name La C... Sons Of Soil General Fiction This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo... Sons Of The Soil General Fiction My dear Nathan, -You, who provide the public with such delightful dreams through the magic of your imagination, are now to follow me while I make you dream a dream of truth. You shall then tell me whether the present century is likely to bequeath suc...

Stories From Balzac General Fiction This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ... A Street Of Paris And Its Inhabitant General Fiction By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction. His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories,... The Thirteen General Fiction The Histoire des Treize consists-or rather is built up-of three stories: Ferragus or the Rue Soly, La Duchesse de Langeais or Ne touchez-paz a la hache, and La Fille aux Yeux d'Or. To tell the truth, there is more power than taste throughout the Hist...

The Two Poets General Fiction Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 181... The Two Young Brides General Fiction This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo... Unconscious Comedians General Fiction This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.... Vautrin General Fiction Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 - 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright best known for a sequence of short stories and novels collectively entitled "La Comedie humaine," which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the 181...

Vautrin's Last Avatar General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after ... The Venial Sin General Fiction Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His Magnum Opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comdie Humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after t... The Girl With the Golden Eyes General Fiction The Girl with the Golden Eyes is part of the History of the Thirteen trilogy written by Honora de Balzac. Balzac was the first writer to write about the social scene France. The introduction tells of urban and economic life in Paris. The story is set... The Physiology of Marriage General Fiction By the French author, who, along with Flaubert, is generally regarded as a founding-father of realism in European fiction.

His large output of works, collectively entitled The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine), consists of 95 finished works (stories,... A Prince of Bohemia Literary This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.... Scenes From Provincial Life Literary Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) was one of the premiere French novelists. This collection contains Eugenie Grandet, A Study of Woman, Another Study of Woman, La Grande Breteche, Domestic Peace, and The Imaginary Mistress."... "Balzac's Life and Literary Legacy the Latest Biography of the Novelist Disentangles Myth and Reality" by Merle Rubin. Merle Rubin regularly reviews books for the Monitor.

- The Christian Science Monitor, September 29, 1994 | Online Research Library: Questia Read preview Article excerpt Unquestionably one of the greatest novelists of a century distinguished for great novelists, Honore de Balzac (1799-1850) created a vast, encyclopedic fictional edifice purporting to portray all aspects of French society: nearly 100 interlinked novels and stories grouped under the collective heading "La Comedie Humaine." Nowadays, few English-speaking readers are likely to be familiar with more than a handful of the most famous titles: "La Peau de Chagrin" (1831), "Eugenie Grandet" (1833), "Le Chef-d'Oeuvre Inconnu" (1837), "Illusions Perdues" (1843), "La Cousine Bette" (1846). Nor is it easy to obtain the less well-known works in translation.

But one positive side effect of Graham Robb's "Balzac: A Biography," the first full-scale biography in English of the French master in more than half a century, could be the reissue of many more of his works. It was with good reason that Andre Maurois, whose biography of Balzac was translated into English in 1965, entitled his book "Prometheus" in tribute to his subject's heroic will-power and vibrant creativity. A chubby, amiable, but relentlessly driven man, Balzac had more than a touch of Napoleonic megalomania - and an uncanny ability to contain and create multitudes. Robb draws attention to a passage from an unpublished text in which Balzac describes this sense of multiplicity allied to egomania: "Yesterday, when I returned home, I saw a countless number of copies of my own person, all jammed up against one another like herrings in a barrel.

They sent my face reverberating off towards some magical horizon, just as the light of a lamp placed in the middle of a drawing-room is repeated to infinity between two facing mirrors." Balzac's genius won the admiration of writers as diverse as Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Emile Zola, Henry James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Oscar Wilde, who proclaimed the death of Balzac's character Lucien de Rubempre "a grief from which I have never been able completely to rid myself." Beginning in the 19th century with such figures as Charlotte Bronte and George Eliot, and continuing with George Saintsbury, Lytton Strachey, and D.H. Lawrence, there has also been a considerable body of opinion that judges Balzac to fall just short of the highest artistic rank. Coarseness of sensibility, immaturity, unwholesomeness, and sentimentality are among the charges leveled against him, along with a tendency to oversimplify. Even Balzac's admirers might concede that his immense appetite for life and information was coupled with a certain lack of intellectual, moral, and aesthetic rigor.

But, as Robb reminds us, Balzac practically invented the "modern" novel, embracing a literary form that was disdained in his native France - not only for its supposed appeal to the "vulgar" reader, but also for its apparent lack of form - and turning it into a medium capable of illuminating every aspect of modern life. … Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Subscribe to Questia and enjoy: Full access to this article and over 10 million more from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers Over 83,000 books Access to powerful writing and research tools Article details Honore de Balzac Honore de Balzac 8,400* 1,100 To honor one of the greatest novelists of all time, French literary artist Honore de Balzac (1799 ï¿½ 1850), Montblanc introduces its Writers Edition 2013 celebrating the notable contribution to world literature of this 19th century visionary.

Featuring a fountain pen, rollerball pen, ballpoint pen and mechanical pencil, this limited edition collection pays tribute to the novelist and playwright who delivered an opus of nearly 100 novels and plays collectively known as *La Comï¿½die Humaine*. The headlining writing instrument is the fountain pen, with the oversized shape of the pen mirroring Balzac*s bold stature; the clip embellished with turquoise lacquering on its top symbolizes the author*s richly decorated walking cane. The platinum and gold-plated rings encircling the pen, from a fairly simple one at the cone to a sophisticated design at the cap top, refer to the different classes that emerged in French society in the early 19th century, often a central theme in the works of Balzac. The pen is finished with Balzac*s initials lasered on the rhodium-plated 18kt gold nib, available in M, F and B widths. Piston Fill. * Includes pieces in 3-piece sets © Pens Limited. copyright, 2011.

All Rights Reserved 1000+ images about Balzac on Pinterest | Novels, Auguste rodin and Short stories Forward Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) Cette version définitive paraît en 1844 et fait partie de la "Comédie humaine".

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Sign up to access the rest of the document. TERM 10000 general knowledge questions and answers No Questions Quiz 16 Ans 10000_questions 33 Honoré de Balzac Tweet Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in the years after the fall of Napoléon Bonaparte in 1815. Due to his keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society, Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature. He is renowned for his multi-faceted characters; even his lesser characters are complex, morally ambiguous and fully human. Inanimate objects are imbued with character as well; the city of Paris, a backdrop for much of his writing, takes on many human qualities. His writing influenced many famous authors, including the novelists Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Marie Corelli, Henry James, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino as well as important philosophers such as Friedrich Engels.

Many of Balzac’s works have been made into films, and they continue to inspire other writers. Before and during his career as a writer, he attempted to be a publisher, printer, businessman, critic, and politician. He failed in all of these efforts. La Comédie Humaine reflects his real-life difficulties, and includes scenes from his own experience. Balzac suffered from health problems throughout his life, possibly due to his intense writing schedule and died in 1850. Available eBooks

Question: Who was the French novelist - nearly 100 books all La Comedie Humaine?
Answer: Honor'e de Balzac